Abstract

THERE has been, in the last two decades, a disheartening tendency among a few teachers of German to treat grammar mincingly. They say: Why drill on the subjunctive and the passive? The student does not grasp the former, and the latter is not much used. They say: Suppose the student is minded to come up with der Messer, die Liffel, das Gabel? He can after all get such food as he needs in a restaurant, or at the campus cafeteria, if the institution sponsors a German table.

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